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Thomas Harding is the author of the fascinating non-fiction book, Hanns & Rudolf: The German Jew and the Kommandant of Auschwitz, which I reviewed earlier this week (you can read the review here).

He’s very kindly taken the time out of his busy touring schedule to prepare a list of the best non-fiction books he’s read on World War II:

1.Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem. Provides a key exploration of the ‘banality of evil’.

2.Rudolf Hoess: Commandant at Auschwitz Rudolf Hoess, also known as Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant of Auschwitz. This autobiography was written in a Polish prison cell while Rudolf awaited his death sentence

3.Sybille Steinbacher: Auschwitz: A History. A fine introduction to the camp and its background

4.Robert G. L. Waite: Vanguard of Nazism. The best book on the Freikorps para-military movement of the 1920s